Mary Boleyn Timeline & Summary

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Mary Boleyn Timeline & Summary

  • Mary watches her uncle being executed; it's the Tudors call Tuesday.
  • Due to her meddling family, Mary is pressured to seduce the king, Henry VIII.
  • Mary soon gets pregnant with the king's child, a girl she names Catherine.
  • Fertile Mary is soon with another child, the king's bastard son, Henry.
  • While Mary's pregnant, King Henry gets bored, so the family places Anne in Henry's path.
  • Henry's affections soon shift toward Anne, which prompts Mary's husband, William, to return to her. He dies, though, and Mary is relieved.
  • Mary entertains the idea of living in the family home and raising her kids. All she really wants is to be a mom.
  • Fate has other plans. And by fate, we mean Mary's controlling sister, Anne.
  • Anne demands that Mary stay at the castle, and she adopts Mary's son, Henry, as a pawn to control her and the king.
  • Mary meets another William—William Stafford—and marries him, against the wishes of her family.
  • Now all Mary wants is to be a wife and mother, but that's hard when you're the sister of the queen.
  • Henry has married Anne, who is desperately trying to produce a male heir.
  • Whenever Anne has a miscarriage, Mary helps Anne hide the evidence.
  • But when Anne is arrested, and soon to be executed, Mary plans to flee the court.
  • After Anne is beheaded, Mary takes her kids and her husband and moves to the country. There are fewer beheadings out there.